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== Background Readings ==
=== Relevant IPCC chapters ===
*'''Chapter
on Climate Change [Edenhofer, O., R. Pichs-Madruga, Y. Sokona, E. Farahani, S. Kadner, K. Seyboth, A. Adler, I. Baum, S.
Brunner, P. Eickemeier, B. Kriemann, J. Savolainen, S. Schlömer, C. von Stechow, T. Zwickel and J.C. Minx (eds.)]. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>: An overview of issues related to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the buildings sector.
*'''Chapter 12: "Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning" in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2014)'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5_chapter12.pdf|title=Seto K.C., S. Dhakal, A. Bigio, H. Blanco, G.C. Delgado, D. Dewar, L. Huang, A. Inaba, A. Kansal, S. Lwasa, J.E. McMahon,
D.B. Müller, J. Murakami, H. Nagendra, and A. Ramaswami, 2014: Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning.
In: Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Edenhofer, O., R. Pichs-Madruga, Y. Sokona, E. Farahani, S. Kadner, K.
Seyboth, A. Adler, I. Baum, S. Brunner, P. Eickemeier, B. Kriemann, J. Savolainen, S. Schlömer, C. von Stechow, T. Zwickel and
J.C. Minx (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>: An overview of issues related to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from urban areas.
=== Academic perspectives ===
*'''Six research priorities for cities and climate change''', Bai, X., et al. (2018)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bai|first=Xuemei|last2=Dawson|first2=Richard J.|last3=Ürge-Vorsatz|first3=Diana|last4=Delgado|first4=Gian C.|last5=Barau|first5=Aliyu Salisu|last6=Dhakal|first6=Shobhakar|last7=Dodman|first7=David|last8=Leonardsen|first8=Lykke|last9=Masson-Delmotte|first9=Valérie|last10=Roberts|first10=Debra C.|last11=Schultz|first11=Seth|date=2018-03|title=Six research priorities for cities and climate change|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02409-z|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=555|issue=7694|pages=23–25|doi=10.1038/d41586-018-02409-z}}</ref>: Leading urban sustainability researchers call for long-term, cross-disciplinary studies to reduce carbon emissions and urban risks from global warming.
*'''Sustainability in an urbanizing planet''', by Seto, K C., et al. (2017)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Seto|first=Karen C.|last2=Golden|first2=Jay S.|last3=Alberti|first3=Marina|last4=Turner|first4=B. L.|date=2017-08-22|title=Sustainability in an urbanizing planet|url=https://www.pnas.org/content/114/34/8935|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=114|issue=34|pages=8935–8938|doi=10.1073/pnas.1606037114|issn=0027-8424|pmid=28784798}}</ref>: This introduction to a special issue in PNAS enumerates key common themes, knowledge gaps and research priorities towards sustainability in an urbanizing planet.
*'''Carbon lock-in: types, causes, and policy implications''', by Seto, K,C., et al. (2016)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Seto|first=Karen C.|last2=Davis|first2=Steven J.|last3=Mitchell|first3=Ronald B.|last4=Stokes|first4=Eleanor C.|last5=Unruh|first5=Gregory|last6=Ürge-Vorsatz|first6=Diana|date=2016-11|title=Carbon Lock-In: Types, Causes, and Policy Implications|url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-environ-110615-085934?journalCode=energy|journal=Annual Review of Environment and Resources|language=en|volume=41|issue=1|pages=425–452|doi=10.1146/annurev-environ-110615-085934|issn=1543-5938}}</ref>: This is an authoritative review of carbon lock-ins, the phenomenon of inertia in carbon emissions, for example due to long-lived infrastructure, and which a key issue for climate change mitigation in cities.
*'''The urban south and the predicament of global sustainability''', by Nagendra, H,, et al.(2018)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nagendra|first=Harini|last2=Bai|first2=Xuemei|last3=Brondizio|first3=Eduardo S.|last4=Lwasa|first4=Shuaib|date=2018-07|title=The urban south and the predicament of global sustainability|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0101-5|journal=Nature Sustainability|language=en|volume=1|issue=7|pages=341–349|doi=10.1038/s41893-018-0101-5|issn=2398-9629}}</ref>: This piece highlights the challenges to achieve sustainability in cities from the Global South. The authors call for a renewed research focus, and targeted efforts to correct structural biases in the knowledge production system.
*'''Internet of Things: Energy boon or bane?''', by Hittinger, E,, and Jaramillo, P. (2019)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hittinger|first=Eric|last2=Jaramillo|first2=Paulina|date=2019-04-26|title=Internet of Things: Energy boon or bane?|url=https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6438/326|journal=Science|language=en|volume=364|issue=6438|pages=326–328|doi=10.1126/science.aau8825|issn=0036-8075|pmid=31023909}}</ref>: This short piece discussed direct and indirect impacts on energy systems of Internet of Things technologies.
=== Perspectives in popular media ===
*'''The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the world'''<ref>{{Cite
== Online Courses and Course Materials ==
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